'Boyhood' made with a handshake, a dream and a lot of luck

July 9, 2014 10:41 PM

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For a film that was always meant to span 12 years into the future, director Richard Linklater had a fixed idea of where his Boyhood epic would be heading.

Linklater had a plan to follow a modern family consisting of parents who have split (Patricia Arquette and Ethan Hawke) and their two children (Ellar Coltrane and Lorelei Linklater). Just executing his vision over 12 years was special. But it did require some film magic for Boyhood to truly take off...